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Birth is a natural process of creating a new life. Birth symbolizes life, giving future hope to people. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, creates a being with his own hands; he has created something magnificent and terrible at the same time. Upon the moment of birth of this creature, Frankenstein runs away in horror. In relation, the author herself as she wrote this story, puts her life events into the …

…turned disastrous. The creature haunts Victor through out the story, remind Victor that death is near by. Victor creates this being from the dead, and resulted in death upon him and others. The creation of this monster presented the fact that life and death are always related in some ways. The biography of Mary Shelley is relevant to Frankenstein because it interpret birth into different meanings. To both Victor and Shelley, death resulted from creation.